The amount intended to compensate the victims he sexually assaulted amounts to 17 million dollars.
An American judge has approved the bankruptcy of The Weinstein Company, the company of film producer Harvey Weinstein, convicted of sexual abuse, based on a financial plan that will compensate the women who accused him of sexual misconduct by about $ 17 million.
The ruling came Monday in a Delaware state court after a federal judge in New York rejected an agreement filed by the prosecutor’s office in July last year that provided for 19 million in compensation for the victims was Hollywood’s most powerful producer. .
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The plan, approved by Judge Mary Walrath, will provide creditors with approximately $ 35 million, of which 17 will go to creating a “fund for sexual misconduct complaints”; 8.4 million for non-sexual complaints and 9.7 million for reimbursement of legal costs of employees, including Weinstein is prohibited.
“83% of the victims said very strongly that they wanted to close the issue by accepting this plan,” the judge said in statements collected by The Hollywood Reporter, referring to a vote by nearly fifty women plaintiffs earlier this month in the conditions of the bankruptcy plan.
Claimants will receive 100% of the stipulated amount of compensation, which will be calculated by awarding points according to the type of fact committed and other factors, if they agree to settle their dispute with Weinstein, while if they do not want to release they will receive 25% in court, which some victims were not satisfied with.
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The New York-based Weinstein company went bankrupt in March 2018 and subsequently sold most of its assets to private equity firm Lantern Capital Partners for nearly $ 300 million.
The producer was sentenced to 23 years in prison in March last year in New York for raping and sexually assaulting two women, and in Los Angeles he was charged with several sexual offenses against five women, for which he could be convicted to another 140-year-old if found guilty.